r/PrepperIntel

Open source intelligence collection and assessment of threats to US homeland by Russia, China, Iran and North Korea observed in May 2026.

I ship hundreds of packages a month. This month is something like I've never seen. Almost all packages are taking 2-3 weeks to arrive. I'm in Washington state near Seattle. I shipped a package to someone a few hours away a week and a half ago. It is still not there.

This is r/PrepperIntel's Bimonthly Fear Index / poll. This will give us an idea of what the sub and it's visitors are currently concerned about into the next several weeks.

• Please upvote what concerns you the most.
• Please downvote if you strongly disagree. (keep in mind a few are short term and may change from time to time.)
• Leave unvoted if you're unsure, undecided, don't care, or are in the middle.
• You can change your votes anytime!
• This style of polling gives better intel of the numbers. And we're all for that around here.

Use the comment sort to sort by: best, top, controversial.

• "Top" is just upvotes minus downvotes.
• "Best" sorts based on what percentage of upvotes Reddit estimates the comment would receive if everyone votes on it. The more votes a comment gets the more confident Reddit can be about what that percentage will be.
• "Controversial": Comments have a high number of up and downvotes.

Past polls will be made readily available around the end of each month so we can look back to possibly identify patterns or how right / wrong we were.

Comments are locked to keep this streamlined, but you are free to post your concerns as long as they fall within the sub's posting guidelines. If it isn't worth a post, use the "everything else" weekly post.

We try to put the post in "contest mode" to make things a bit more honest and randomized for the first hours to day.

I have decided to dial it back from every thirty days to 60, I wish I could automate this poll, but due to how everything has to be done with comments I cannot easily do that to my current knowledge. So we're going try Early Jan, March, May, July, Sept, Nov.

Thank you all for participating! (No really, it's interesting data and its only you that makes it happen)

-Mod Anti

This includes but not limited to:

• Prepping questions
• Rumors
• Speculative thoughts
• Small / mundane
• Promotion of Sales
• Sub meta / suggestions
• Prepping jokes.
• Mods have no power here, only votes, behave.

This will be re-posted every Saturday, letting the last week's stickied post fade into the deep / get buried by new posts. -Mod Anti

Hsieh Ching-chin, Taiwan’s Coast Guard Deputy, has ordered Taiwanese ships to ignore Chinese boarding commands. Chinese assertion of authority has drawn condemnation from European offices based in Taiwan. China maintains the assertion of their authority over Taiwanese waters and rejects Taiwanese claims of sovereignty.

This could be, but not limited to:

• Local business observations.
• Shortages / Surpluses.
• Work slow downs / much overtime.
• Order cancellations / massive orders.
• Economic Rumors within your industry.
• Layoffs and hiring.
• New tools / expansion.
• Wage issues / working conditions.
• Boss changing work strategy.
• Quality changes.
• New rules.
• Personal view of how you see your job in the near future.
• Bonus points if you have some proof or news, we like that around here.
• News from close friends about their work.

DO NOT DOX YOURSELF. Wording is key.

Thank you all, -Mod Anti

Archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260701225138/https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-suspends-railway-border-crossings-finland-baltic-neighbors/

Original link:

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-suspends-railway-border-crossings-finland-baltic-neighbors/

Key info:

Russia on Wednesday shut down traffic through some of its last remaining railway border crossings with the European Union.

The move, announced in a government order on Tuesday evening, suspends all movement of persons, vehicles, goods, and cargo by rail with Finland, Estonia and Latvia from July 1. The Foreign Ministry has formally notified the Baltic nations of the decision, but offered no explanation for the “temporary” closures, nor any indication of when they might be lifted.

PJM in a Maximum Generation Emergency Alert and Hot Weather Alert. High temperatures spiking cooling demand coinciding with solar ramp down in the evening leading to extremely high prices as conventional generators get picked up to meet the net load.